The year-on-year price of bread rose by a third in Lithuania in August, according to Eurostat’s Monday data quoted by Reuters. The highest increase in bread price was recorded in Hungary with 66%. Throughout the European Union, the price of bread rose by 18% in August. The prices have been impacted by Russia’s invasion of…
Between September 12 and September 18, Ukraine exported 1.1 million tons of agricultural products via the Odesa region’s ports, up 2-fold from the previous week. The relevant statement was made by the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UCAB) on Facebook. During this period, the number of vessels loaded at the Ukrainian ports also increased by 18. Most…
Astarta started a new sugar production season. On September 16, the first two sugar plants started processing sugar beets. Three more plants will be launched in the third decade of September and at the beginning of October. “In total, five sugar plants will operate in the 2022 production season. They are fully ready for work.…
About 70,000 tons of grapes of various varieties have been processed as part of the ongoing harvest in Georgia’s eastern winemaking region of Kakheti. The harvest has been processed by 150 wine companies and cellars, with about 7,000 growers handing in their grapes to private wine enterprises this year. As of September 16, over 300…
Since year-start, food prices in Ukraine have increased by an average of 25%, with the largest price hikes recorded for fruits and vegetables, the State Statistics Service reports. Prices for food products and alcoholic beverages have increased by 25% since the beginning of 2022, the report says. Fruit prices have gone up by 60.2%, while…
The National Food Safety Agency (ANSA) has identified a non-conforming consignment of imported butter, which has been returned. Within the programme on monitoring and supervision in the field of safety and quality of animal origin food products in 2022, ANSA detected a batch of imported butter of 11 tons, which did not meet the sanitary…
Lithuanian beer with a production date after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine is still available in the Russian market. According to producers, their beer is transported to Russia without their knowledge. Recently, activist Oleg Surajev has published a video showing the beer of Lithuanian producer Volfas Engelman being loaded onto a truck with…